Gertrud von Wart
Gertrud von Wart (documented from 1286 ; † 1322 ) was the wife of Rudolf von Wart , who was wheeled for regicide in 1309 .
Life
Gertrud von Wart, the only daughter of Rudolf III. von Balm and the Judenta von Kempten, came from the family of the Barons von Balm . Since her father died in 1286 and her marriage took place in 1299, her year of birth can be set to 1285. Gertrud von Wart had seven surviving children with Rudolf von Wart. On May 1, 1308, Rudolf, as a friend and co-conspirator of Johann von Schwaben , gave the signal for the murder of King Albrecht I near Brugg with the words "how long will we let the carrion ride" . Rudolf von Balm pierced the king with his sword. Even before he fled, Rudolf von Wart managed to save his main castle from destruction by selling it to a cousin. On the flight to France he was arrested on the Doubs in the then still part of the empire Palatinate of Burgundy after Johannes von Müller by his wife's cousin, Diebold von Blamont, and sold to Duke Leopold and Agnes of Hungary . Rudolf von Balm was dragged to court tied by a ponytail. According to a legend, Gertrud von Balm begged the life of her husband in vain from the daughter of Albrecht Agnes of Hungary. According to the chronicler Matthias von Neuenburg , Rudolf von Wart was whacked at the site of the attack in Königsfelden near Brugg after September 18, 1309. According to the stump chronicle , the execution took place near Winterthur. Gertrud von Wart is said to have stayed praying under the bike during the three days of painful death without food. After the execution of her husband, she walked to Basel and entered a convent where she died in 1322.
Gertrud's reception in the 19th century
Johann Conrad Appenzeller's letter novel Gertrud von Wart, published in 1813 , or Gertrud von Wart transfigured faithfully until death as a romantic model of loyalty to her husband. Appenzeller did not conduct his own source study, but took the material from the second book of Johannes von Müller's The Stories of the Swiss . The three-volume work saw several editions and was translated into English, Dutch and twice into French. Numerous illustrations and art sheets, published several times and varied by Johann Honegger, subsequently appeared. August Weckesser painted Gertrud von Balm before Agnes of Hungary in 1872.
literature
Johann Conrad Appenzeller: Gertrud von Wart, or true to death , Zurich, Orell & Füssli, 1813 [1]
source
- Historical-Biographical Lexicon of Switzerland , seventh and last volume. Neuenburg 1934, p. 420 (with reference to the chronicle of Johannes von Winterthur ).
Web links
- Martin Leonhard: Gertrud von Wart. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Detlef Schwennicke: European family tables. Family tables on the history of the European states. New series Volume XII, Schwaben, plate 109 A, p. 125
- ↑ Museum Schloss Kyburg: The regicide of 1308 Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Johannes von Müller: Johannes von Müller all works, ed. by JG Müller, Volume 20, The Stories of the Swiss Eydgenossenschaft, Tübingen, JG Cotta, 1815, Book 2, p. 124.
- ^ Announcements of the Antiquarian Society in Zurich, Volume 16, Zurich, 1870, p. 44.
- ^ Aegidius Tschudi: Chronicon Helveticum, Volume 1, p. 250
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wait, Gertrud von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Representative of the Barons von Wart |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1286 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1322 |
| Place of death | Basel |